We continued upriver from Palatka. The scenery was marvelous. We originally planned to stay at Hontoon State Park but the water at the docks looked pretty thin so we decided to stay on the other side of the river at the Hontoon Landing Marina which is part of the Resort. As we were securing the boat, one of the dockhands told us that if we liked bears, we should out in front of the office and see the bears. We thought he was putting us on but sure enough there were 3 bears up in a tree.. It was a mother and her 2 cubs. The cubs appeared to be over a year old. They were beautiful and extremely healthy looking. The lady at the office said that there are a lot of bears in that area. She has to take her garbage to a dumpster because the bears carry off her garbage cans. She also said that one night the bears took her son's gas grill from his yard carried it into the woods.
We had dinner on board this evening. Melanie had brought Crawfish Bisque. It was so good! Tomorrow further upriver on our quest for Manatees!
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